Ridiculous Roles Directors Have Asked Women To Audition For
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In a new infographic, the Representation Project analyzed the top 500 films of all time and found that just six starred a woman of color. That’s just 1%.
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These are the kinds of roles that win women Oscars. One solution for changing it up? More women directors.
Source: Lee & Low Books
"- –Olivia Wilde crushing it when she talks about women in Hollywood.I don’t know if some of you have been to these live reads at LACMA, where a classic film is read live on stage by actors who just sit and read the script. We did one recently of American Pie, but we reversed the gender roles. All the women played men; all the men played women. And it was so fascinating to be a part of this because, as the women took on these central roles — they had all the good lines, they had all the good laughs, all the great moments — the men who joined us to sit on stage started squirming rather uncomfortably and got really bored because they weren’t used to being the supporting cast.
It was fascinating to feel their discomfort [and] to discuss it with them afterward, when they said, “It’s boring to play the girl role!” And I said, “Yeah. Yeah. You think? Welcome to our world!
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If you ever feel shy about owning your success, ask yourself: What would Meryl do?
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"I don’t get it. That’s like someone being like, “I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it."-
–Amy Poehler on celebrities who shy away from the word “feminist.”
Source: HuffPo
The 2014 “Vanity Fair” Hollywood Issue Has A Record Six People Of Color On The Cover
via BuzzFeed:
Vanity Fair just released the cover of its annual Hollywood Issue, and there is something refreshingly different about this year’s installment. Prior to this issue, the most people of color to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue — one of the year’s most high profile representations of who makes up the top tier of Hollywood talent — was three. This year, 6 of the 12 people featured on the cover are actors of color.
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RIGHT ANSWER.
Man we hate it when women are told not to come on an adventure because it’s too dangerous.
—Spidey Super Stories #34 (1978)
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This Graph Proves That Everyone Loses When Hollywood Is Sexist
Money talks. Vocativ writers Versha Sharma and Hanna Sender analyzed the 50 top-grossing feature films of 2013 using the Bechdel Test. Named after American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, the test evaluates gender bias in films by whether a movie features two or more women who have a conversation about something other than a man. (Seems simple, but many, many films don’t pass.)
Out of the 50 movies, 24 passed the Bechdel Test. Seven of the 24 were deemed “dubious” because the majority of the dialogue between the female characters was about men. The films that passed made a combined $1.56 billion more in box office sales than those that didn’t. Those numbers speak for themselves.
Million dollar bummer: how the highest paid women in Hollywood stack up to their male counterparts.
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